Nevertheless, Scholes suggested rivals Manchester City might have snared the most impressive buy between the clubs so far this close season by persuading Ilkay Gundogan – the Germany global midfielder who is still recuperating from a knee injury – to join from Borussia Dortmund.
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Jose Mourinho is confident Manchester United will continue to enjoy a good transfer window this summer following the acquisition of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. United are willing to make Pogba one of the world’s richest footballers after offering him £210,000 after taxes to come back to his “first family”.
“Certain things I only discuss with my clients, and they know how things are”.
“I can’t tell you if Pogba is worth that price today but all I know is that he’s an exceptional player”.
“We just have 25 per cent to do before the 31st of August, so we are in great conditions to have what I would consider a good market for us”.
Dimitri Payet is not sure whether Paul Pogba is worth £85million, but believes whoever buys the midfielder will be getting an exceptional player. He is a Juventus player and he is not a Man United player.
‘For his age, he was asking for far too much money, that too for a player who hadn’t played first team football’.
Juventus, however, are expected to demand at least £86m for Pogba, who left Old Trafford to join the Serie A club on a free transfer in 2012. I’ve seen a lot of him at Borussia Dortmund.
Do you think Pogba is staying at or leaving Juventus? I asked for four players and gave them a few options.
“I think it affects a lot”.
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Bonucci, who was a key part of Antonio Conte’s Italian national team that reached the ¼ finals of Euro 2016, is also believed to be attracting the interest of Manchester City and Chelsea.
